The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
It is just a seed. The husk around the coconut however is technically the fruit of the Cocos palm. As for drupes, that name refers to the coconut(seed), and the husk(fruit) all together.Drupes are fruits, but you can not call the coconut a drupe or fruit after it has been removed from it's fleshy husk, just as you would not call a peach pit alone a fruit. It is a seed.Source(s): 15 years in the horticulture field.Gorilla sensei Â· 6 years ago.rupes are fruits, but you can not call the coconut a drupe or fruit after it has been removed from it's fleshy husk, just as you would not call a peach pit alone a fruit. It is a seed. Source(s): 15 years in the horticulture field. Gorilla sensei Â· 6 years ago.